Golden-mantled ground squirrel, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, September 1, 2009

Sky over Sawtooth Mountains, near Stanley, Idaho, July 27, 2010

Garden at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Virginia, May 8, 2009

Glass Blower at His Furnace, Clarksville, Missouri, June 8, 2007

Petit Jean Mountain Rendezvous Campfire, Early Arkansas Reenactors Association, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas, November 28, 2009

Restored 1903 One Room School (interior), Ash Hollow State Historical Park, Nebraska, July 8, 2010

Hornbek Homestead Buildings, Florissant Fossil Bed National Monument, Colorado, September 9, 2011

Florissant Fossil Beds (Exit 78)

“Adeline Hornbek was not a typical homesteader.  In the 1870s, after the loss of two husbands and two homes, this single mother of four moved her family to the Florissant Valley.  At a time when women had few opportunities to own property, she filed a claim to homestead 160 acres here. Within seven years, Adeline had built a sizable house and nine outbuildings, and had acquired $4,000 worth of livestock.  On top of the daily work of homestead chores and raising children, she added a job at the general store in Florissant.”

Digging for Diamonds, Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas, January 29, 2011

Crater of Diamonds State Park is the  only place in the world where the public can dig for diamonds.

Latest recorded finds.

“Humiliation “ –  John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 26, 2013

John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, memorializes the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, the worst civil disturbance in American History.  (See more at Reconciliation)